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No Traslacion this year
By Fernan Angeles FOR the first time in so many years, the annual feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo Manila would not be drawing millions of pilgrims as the traditional “traslacion” had just been scrapped amid the continued threat of the virus from Wuhan, China. Quiapo Church officials made the announcement on the cancellation…
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Feast of the Black Nazarene to push through with a twist
By Fernan Angeles NEXT year’s Feast of the Black Nazarene will push through — in a different twist though. Citing the need to consider the continuing onslaught of the highly-infectious COVID-19, parochial vicar of the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene Fr. Douglas Badong said that the annual feast of the Black Nazarene will push…